Improved medical compound



New

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EPHRAIM M. BERRY AND LARK-IN MV BERRY, OF SALTILLO,

' INDIANA.

Letters Patent No. 83,823, dated November'lO, 1868.

mPROVB-D MEDICAL COZMPO'U'ND.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the sanie.

LABKJN M. BERRY, of Saltillo, in the county of Washington, and in the' tate of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Compoundfor Curing-Epilepsy and other Nervous Diseases; and

do hereby declare that .the following is a. full, clear,

and exact description thereof.

Our invention, which we entitle Berrys Compound, Anti-spasmodic and Specific Remedy for Epilepsy and all Diseases of the Nervous System, is composed of the following ingredients, viz

Two ounces Persulphate fer r13,- two drachms stral- Y monium; three ounces stilling'ia.; half ounce Valerian; three ounces oil of sassafres; which ingredients are put into one gallon of alcohol, and sufficient loaf-sugar added, that, when reduced to one gallon of the compound, it will'make a sirup.

This compound is especially efi'ective as a remedy forspasms, fits, and any diseases of the nervous system. and should be taken asfollows:

\ 1 For a child from one to two years old, three to. fire drops; from five to ten years, ten to fifteen drops. For adults, twenty-five to thirty drops, every hours until change of symptoms, then three times day until a. cure is effected.

"We do not, however, confine ourselves to the proportions of the ingredients above mentioned, nor to the doses prescribed, as they may be varied according to circumstances. 4 What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The compound above described, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing, we have hereunto set our hands, this 14th day of-May 1868.

EPHRAIM M. BERRY. v LARKIN M. BERRY.

Witnesses;

W. C.'BERRY-, M. J. MEAD. 

